A student assembly on Wednesday at Washington D.C.’s Sidwell Friends School, one of the nation’s top prep schools, turned into a frightening example of hate’s pervasive reach when unidentified students projected swastikas and racist usernames on a screen in a meeting room. Around 500 students from the ninth through twelfth …

Stephen Colbert predicts that another tell-all book from a former member of President Donald Trump’s administration will soon hit the bookshelves. As the “Late Show” host pointed out, the incident was documented in an internal memo from John Kelly, who was Trump’s chief of staff at the time. That detail has …

HONG KONG — The Chinese electronics giant Huawei sued the United States government on Wednesday, arguing that it had been unfairly and incorrectly banned as a security threat. The lawsuit will force the government to make its case against the company more public, but it could also leave Huawei vulnerable …

WASHINGTON — She paused to maintain her composure as she spoke. She recalled the attacks, and how her reports of them were handled. The despair, she said, almost made her leave the military. Senator Martha McSally, Republican of Arizona and the first woman in the Air Force to fly in …

[Want to read more from Marc Stein? Sign up for his free weekly newsletter here.] Andrew Bogut made his return to the N.B.A. on Wednesday, signing a rest-of-the-season contract to rejoin the Golden State Warriors. The reunion came two years to the day since Bogut, the former No. 1 overall …

Paul Weeks was one of two Kiwis on board the aeroplane when it disappeared without a trace on March 8 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. His sister Sara Norton told Radio NZ’s Checkpoint her family is still waiting for answers. She added that, as it is not …

CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s day began with a nationally televised broadcast in which he whispered, cried and ranted while pleading with viewers to believe him: He’d never had sex with anyone under 17 and never held anyone against her will. The day ended with a trip to jail after …

Fifteen years ago, a movie fan could go into any of Blockbuster’s 9,000 stores and walk out with a Steven Spielberg hit. Now, options are limited for those who want to rent a hard copy of “Saving Private Ryan” from somewhere other than a library. There are only two Blockbuster …

Immigrant rights advocates and organizers protesting the Trump administration’s policies celebrated a victory this week after JPMorgan Chase & Company said it would no longer finance private operators of prisons and detention centers. As the administration has stepped up efforts to detain undocumented migrants, privately run prisons have become the …